It's hard to think of Alfie, or even Batman's Alfred, as an old man. But Michael Caine is in full dotage as Clarence, a retired magician and grouchy widower on the brink of senility who has been forced to enter a nursing home in Is Anybody There?, opening April 17.

Cy Feuer, who with Ernest H. Martin produced some of Broadway's biggest hits including Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as well as the movie version of Cabaret, died Wednesday at home. He was 95.

Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for showing that bacterial infection, not stress, was to blame for painful ulcers in the stomach and intestine.

Devoted fans of movies and TV shows love to make pilgrimages to the places where their favorite scenes were set. Now the New York City Mayor's Office for Film, Theater and Broadcast is making it easier to track down locations featured in everything from Sex and the City and Donald Trump's The Apprentice to Spider-Man 2 and Kinsey.

Beverly Dennis, a former film and television actress who starred in The Red Buttons Show until she was blacklisted in the 1950s, died on Jan. 20. She was 79. She died of multiple myeloma at her Beverly Hills home, said her daughter, Amanda Kramer.

With special effects so convincing you don't even think about them, a head-case hero and a three-dimensional villain who is his equal, socko Spider-Man 2 (* * * * out of four) has something for everyone.

What do you do when director Sam Raimi calls and asks you to be Doctor Octopus, one of the greatest villains in comic book history? You say yes. Such was the predicament of Alfred Molina, the classically trained and Tony-nominated actor Raimi tapped to play the sinister Otto Octavius, or "Doc Ock," in Spider-Man 2, which arrives in theaters Wednesday.